The 65-year-old former Godfather’s Pizza CEO is a brash, new voice in Republican politics. And he may be just what the Tea Party is looking for. TIME talks to Herman Cain about what role he might play in the looming presidential primary.
The Hawaii Department of Health, unlucky keeper of President Obama’s long-form birth certificate, has been bombarded with hundreds of demands for information since the birther fervor heated up in 2008. According to Janice Okubo, the department’s public information officer, many of those requests come from the same people over and over again, and all of them [...]
Just how bad is it for Republicans? Multiple choice: A) 76% of Republicans are dissatisfied with their choices for President, says Zogby. B) Only 40% of Republicans are satisfied with their choices, says CBS News. Or C) Just 52% of Republicans are satisfied, says Newsweek. Answer: None of the above.
The rumors have been floating around for months–I helped in the floating process, back in February–but it now seems likely that Leon Panetta will be the next Secretary of Defense, David Petraeus will replace him at CIA, General John Allen will replace Petraeus as commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan and Ryan Crocker will come [...]
Of course, Donald Trump declared victory. “I am really honored and I am really proud, that I was able to do something that nobody else could do,” he said in New Hampshire Wednesday morning, after President Obama released the long-form birth certificate that Trump had long demanded. That the document demonstrated conclusively that Trump had [...]
It was never going to be easy for Obama to watch Robert Gates walk out of the Pentagon and back into private life. Over two and a half years, Gates has provided impenetrable political air cover for a series of extremely difficult national security decisions, from the surge in Afghanistan to repeal of Don’t Ask, [...]
Fed up with the birther circus, the White House says it sought an exemption from Hawaii law that forbids copying or releasing this version of the document.
When Robert Gates leaves the Pentagon, Leon Pannetta will be named Defense Secretary, Gen. Petraeus will move to head the CIA, Lt. Gen. John Allen will take over forces in Afghanistan and Ryan Crocker will serve as Ambassador there. From a domestic perspective, it’s worth noting that Panetta is both a former House Budget Committee chairman [...]
Fed-watchers may recall that in my last post, I courageously risked my membership in the Ben Bernanke Fan Club by asking the chairman why he had failed to juice the economy enough to avoid sky-high unemployment. The boring answer, I suspect, is that he’s skeptical additional monetary stimulus would help create many jobs, although I don’t [...]
John Boehner is perpetually on message. Which is why the House Speaker’s comments to Jonathan Karl of ABC News, in an interview posted this afternoon, were eye-opening. At a moment when Democrats are using Paul Ryan’s budget blueprint to blister Republicans for trampling Medicare, Boehner appeared at times to backpedal somewhat from unconditional support of [...]
